Data Center

It was a big news day for virtualization, with announcements from Microsoft as well as Linux-focused technologies.

Sterling Network Services recently installed two new high-capacity chilled water lines for its Phoenix data center facility, a huge upgrade that gives it the largest cooling installation in a commercial building in Arizona.

Cooling vendors say the switch to liquid cooling products is inevitable as high-density blade server installations ratchet up power requirements and heat loads.

Ninety five percent of IBM's blade customers are using air cooling, rather than next-generation fluid cooling solutions.

Downtime is suddenly blogworthy, as B5 Media, Blog Network Watch, Syntagma Media and Work Boxers are all notcing one another's web site outages.

The European version of of the popular World of Warcraft online world is knocked offline by a data center move.

The Steam online gaming system delivered 10 million gigabytes of data transfer in 2005, with the help of Limelight Networks.

More bloggie downtime: del.icio.us has a lengthy outage after a data center power failure.

Six Apart's Anil Dash supplies additional information about the TypePad outage.

TypePad is having extended performance problems (again) after a disk failure wiped out exisiting sites.